Markham Contemporary Music Festival

Markham Contemporary Music Festival (MCMF) is an annual event that takes place in various concert venues in Markham Ontario. The Festival promotes the performance by local artists of music written worldwide in the 20th and the 21st centuries by Canadian Indigenous American Asian and European composers and includes lectures and seminars in both English and French workshops master-classes pre-concert chats intermission discussions post-concert receptions documentary films about the life of contemporary composers and networking events. The MCMF invites local artists to participate in community engagement activities that celebrate and preserve culture heritage and the performing arts. In addition to individual artists the MCMF may also invite local community groups (civic orchestras amateur choirs and concert bands theatrical and dramatic performing arts organizations and chamber music ensembles).